Should Judi Dench keep her 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar?

Actually, the amount of time is immaterial in relation to the performance. If you go back to watch “Judgment at Nuremberg”, for example, you will see that Judy Garland had minimal screen time as well…yet…that performance was/is still magnificent to watch. She was nominated, but lost to Rita Morena for “West Side Story”, and perhaps it should have been a tie award.

Judi Dench always deserves the awards she wins. Aside from anything else the woman is a power-house performer. The first lines of this article say it all. She does steal the scenes even without trying, and she never would do it intentionally anyway. Her talent is unreal, her ego is completely non-existent, her personality is beyond generous, and her level of humility just doesn’t exist in hollywood, or the acting profession normally. She is a totally talented & genius story-telling anamoly! For that alone she deserves every award she is nominated for. As for “Shakespeare in Love”, it was a small part, and it was good! However, the competition was stiff this year, and someone else should have probably actually gotten the Oscar. This was a typical Oscar panel “F***” up…snubbing Judi, and giving Helen Hunt the prize! Helen even admitted it in her acceptance speech the year before!
It does occur that there are very few people who would mind losing to Judi Dench anyway…seriously.

I think Dench was the abilities talent in that award, i also believe kathy bates was excellent and Redgrave, but i believe Judi Dench had the edge. The oscars are getting meaningless to people anyway. But if it still continues i defiantely agree DEnch should have won and forget the dumb nonsense about should she give it back how cruel.

I thought that she did deserve it. During her final scene, where she says something like ” I do know something about a woman taking a man’s job. By god do I” the emotion and power she put into that got her the oscar. However, I also believe that she deserved it more the previous year for Mrs. Brown.